Varanasi (D)

VARANASI: Varanasi is set to become the first city in UP to use cow dung cakes for cremation despite opposition from a section of wood-sellers. Nagpur-based NGO Eco-Friendly Living Foundation and Kashi

The Ghaghra river is swelling unabated. In the last three days' flood report, it has shown a rising trend. At Elgin bridge in Barabanki the river is flowing at 106.3metres, about 23cms above the danger

The ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEFCC) has set up a committee to decide whether the Varanasi Turtle Sanctuary should be de-notified. It has also ordered a "third-party" evaluation

VARANASI: Making an ecofreindly move to utilize solar power, UP New and Renewable Energy Development Agency (UPNEDA) took the initiative to install the first 75 kw rooftop solar power plant at Vikas Bhawan

It is not just the Opposition that is out to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s emotive connect with the Ganga. Statistics show very little has been done in the past two years of BJP rule — in spite